Back to work.
I’ve had this video in the back of my mind for the past few days. I liked the way it made me notice more of what was happening around me.
Writing my first script now.
I’m currently trying to be opinionated with it, if I nuance everything, there’s no point left to make.
Notes golden path
Write as you already write today.Let Fentier find the moments that relate.
How many connections have been sitting unnoticed in the notes we already write?Here, it found two moments related to these passages.@BateauMouche & @ClasseLibre45
It shows this same passage as it was then.
And stays that way.Editing takes you back to the passage as it is now.
But let’s compare it to now
The Notes in this demo were written for it, but what’s in them is real.
They’re fragments of things I’ve noticed, things I’ve done, and moments I’ve been proud of.
Lately, I’ve been trying to bring them back to mind every morning. They remind me who I am, and some of the people in them remind me how much more alive it’s possible to be.
Taking a few days off.
While building today…
While building the Entry Detail today, I realized notes don't quite belong to the same hierarchy as the other media either. A note might have been created a year ago, then reopened today just to add “carrots” to a grocery list. The note naturally belongs to both moments, and since Fentier already dates notes at the paragraph level, each part can retain the context in which it was written.
Audio can connect media within a moment; notes can connect moments across time.
This is the first time I've shared my progress publicly. YC's application forced me to put into words a lot of context that had mostly lived in my head and in Figma/FigJam for the past year. I didn't expect how useful that would feel once I started adding these updates. It makes me wonder how many interesting people I might have met along the way if I'd made the work easier to follow earlier.
I said I'd have the first TestFlight ready by August 11. I was wrong. I underestimated how long the remaining work would take. I expect it to take about another week.
Current Figma screens
BTW, the gallery cells are meant to show their actual thumbnails. Rather than recreating all of them manually in Figma, here’s what the gallery currently looks like in the build.
